Takuya Ishida

Tells a wonderful story centered on 3 friends, the tomboyish and clumsy Makoto Konono, and two hunks Chiaki Mamiya and Kousuke Tsuda. Theirs is a friendship formed after school at the baseball court where they spend quality time talking about typical teenage stuff. Things start to change however, when Makoto by accident gets the power to time travel (IMDB Comments)

As the Grim Reaper in human form, Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days, and then decide either to 'execute' or 'pass over'...Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki, 27. She works for a manufacturing company, in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It's time for the Reaper to go to work. (asiacue.com)

Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san (Kuranosuke Sasaki) the local police officer who caught Mamachari's friend Saijo (Takuya Ishida) for speeding on his scooter, Chuzai-san gets them suspended from school which only causes the teenagers to retaliate, They discover that Chuzai-san is married to an attractive woman named Kanako (Kumiko Aso) only making their pranks worse. (asianmediawiki.com)

An odd death case that only targets persons whose last name is SATO is happening in Japan. Meanwhile, high school student SATO Tsubasa winds up in a parallel world during a fight with gangsters. Everything seems the same, but his friends, classmates are somehow different. Tsubasa cannot comprehend what is happening around him, but when he sees a girl getting killed in front of him by a persuer, he finds out that he is now in a world where the Lord of the land plays a fatal game of "tag". (AsianMediaWiki)

"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Beatles and other mid-1960's Brit Pop. Three young men set out to start their own band "The Diamonds" when they are signed to a recording contract during their very first rehearsal. Things turn for the unexpected when their agent brings Mick (Chiaki Kuriyama) into the group as their keyboarder. All of them believe Mick looks remarkably like a girl! (AsianMediaWiki)

Minato is a young girl who was traumatized at a young age by being abandoned by her parents and left with her senile grandmother. She frequently corresponds with a pen-pal named Night, a boy about the same age as her that she's never actually seen in person. Although Minato and Night are very different, they get along anyway and she regularly updates him on the happenings in her daily life. She is even willing to confide in Night that she's falling in love with a boy she met, named Sho. (asianmediawiki.com)

The adventures of a volunteer with an alpine search and rescue team in the Japanese Alps. (Wikipedia)

The year is 1575 in feudal Japan. Oda Nobunaga's (Kippei Shiina) forces defeat Takeda Katsuyori, when Nagashino Castle was besieged during the Battle of Nagashino. The next year Oda Nobunada decides to build a lavish new castle symbolizing his unification of various factions. The castle named Azuchi Castle will be built near water and high enough to be seen from the capital city of Kyoto. (asianwiki)

University students play an ancient game that involves calling spirits to attack one's opponent. (imdb)

Set on an island a little offshore from the main Japanese landmass. Film is located in a small town serving a coal mine. Life is grim as mining is hard but the industry is dying. Film follows the lives of two disparate families focusing on 2 male children as they grow from 10'ish to young adults, also their schoolmates. The kids are the link between the two families both of which are damaged by the harsh times. (My summary)

When friends graduate from junior high school and are enrolled in high school Koichi and Yakko join a motorcycle gang. They make new friends, have fights, and flirt with girls. Yakko, however, is not having an easy time of it. Koichi stands up for his friend and joins the yakuza, which brings its own problems with it.

Nao fails the entrance exams and enrolls at a technical high school. She's one of just 3 girls and the only girl in her class of 148 freshmen.